AI-Assisted Web Scraping

Visit Website: Just like you open a website in your browser.
Read Content: The tool reads the website's code (HTML &amp; JavaScript).
Find Data: It looks for and identifies the specific data you want.
Collect Data: The desired data is then pulled from the website.
Save Data: The tool saves this data in a file or database for you.

Introduction

What is web scraping?

Web scraping is a method of extracting and collecting data from websites to retrieve specific information.
In our world of secondary research, it can significantly reduce the amount of time taken to gather data, thus offering a competitive advantage to companies like Wonder.
A website containing thousands of entries in a list would require hundreds of hours to scrape manually. However, using web scraping tools, this could potentially be done in minutes.

While a lot of technicalities go into how web scraping works, here is a simple breakdown of the main steps:

User-Friendly: Point-and-click interfaces let you choose data without coding.
Automate Tasks: Set it once, and it can scrape many pages or sites.
Handles Complex Sites: Even if websites use lots of dynamic content, tools can still get the data.
Clean Data: They can filter and organize the data for you.
Avoid Blocks: Some tools can work around website barriers like CAPTCHAs or logins.
Export to a spreadsheet or Google Sheet.